{"title":"In the Presence of \"Gypsiness\": Dvořák, Ecocriticism, Stimmung","authors":"Dylan Price","doi":"10.1353/oas.2023.0027","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article is about Stimmung and \"Gypsiness\" (two aesthetic tropes of nineteenth-century culture) in the music of Antonín Dvořák. In visual art and music, Stimmung has long been associated with idyllic landscape scenes. Yet in Dvořák's music, its usage is more fraught. In his Gypsy Songs, Stimmung demands unmediated contact with \"Gypsiness,\" an imagined amalgamation of alterity that is more often kept at arm's length. Insofar as it makes \"Gypsiness\" affectively proximate, this music is more ideologically challenging than other cultural products in the Stimmung tradition, and it prompts larger questions about the politicization of affect in the imperial creative imagination.","PeriodicalId":40350,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Austrian Studies","volume":"56 1","pages":"87 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Austrian Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/oas.2023.0027","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article is about Stimmung and "Gypsiness" (two aesthetic tropes of nineteenth-century culture) in the music of Antonín Dvořák. In visual art and music, Stimmung has long been associated with idyllic landscape scenes. Yet in Dvořák's music, its usage is more fraught. In his Gypsy Songs, Stimmung demands unmediated contact with "Gypsiness," an imagined amalgamation of alterity that is more often kept at arm's length. Insofar as it makes "Gypsiness" affectively proximate, this music is more ideologically challenging than other cultural products in the Stimmung tradition, and it prompts larger questions about the politicization of affect in the imperial creative imagination.
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The Journal of Austrian Studies is an interdisciplinary quarterly that publishes scholarly articles and book reviews on all aspects of the history and culture of Austria, Austro-Hungary, and the Habsburg territory. It is the flagship publication of the Austrian Studies Association and contains contributions in German and English from the world''s premiere scholars in the field of Austrian studies. The journal highlights scholarly work that draws on innovative methodologies and new ways of viewing Austrian history and culture. Although the journal was renamed in 2012 to reflect the increasing scope and diversity of its scholarship, it has a long lineage dating back over a half century as Modern Austrian Literature and, prior to that, The Journal of the International Arthur Schnitzler Research Association.